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Doubt
By John Patrick Shanley
The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A Catholic school in the Bronx, 1964. The strong-minded principal has her suspicions that one of her teaching fathers is abusing vulnerable pupils. But without proof, what action should she take?
'A superb new drama... an inspired study in moral uncertainty within the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama. Even as Doubt holds your attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off the stealth charges that go deeper emotionally' New York Times
'How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity... Blunt, yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely' Newsday
Published by Theatre Communications Group, USA.
First Staged: Manhattan Theatre Club, 2004; Broadway, 2005
Cast: 3f 1m
£12.999781559362764 - PB